[dc desk calculator]

[Richard L. Hamilton]

This might be true (that bc and dc are together) for historical reasons. Commercial Unix source has bc as a front end to dc; only the rare RPN fan used dc directly. The GNU version does not do that, their bc is not dependent on dc.

> On Jul 12, 2021, at 20:04, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> 
> The bc port includes dc.
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2021, at 19:27, raf via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 06:06:47PM +0300, Maxim Abalenkov <maxim.abalenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> How are you? I hope all is well with you. Would you please tell me, if the dc (desk calculator) is available via MacPorts:
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_(computer_program)>
>>> 
>>> I wasn’t able to find via the `port search` command. On the other hand, I wasn’t able to find `dc` in source code either. If you have any hints or pointers, please let me know. Thank you and have a wonderful day ahead!
>>> 
>>> —
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Maxim
>> 
>> /usr/bin/dc is already present.
>> 
>>> dc --version
>> dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
>> 
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